Revolving clod-fender.



H. H. MUNSON.

REVOLVING OLOD FENDER.

APPLICATION IfLED JAN. 27, 1913.

Patented Nov. 18, 1913.

WhwEssEs HUGH-H. MUNSON, or TRURO, IOWA.

REVOLVING crop-FENDER.

T all iolzom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HUG-II H. MUNSON,

' a citizen of the United States, residing in Truro, county of Madison, and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Revolving (Hod-Fenders, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide an improved revolving clod fender, designed as an attachment fora cultivator, adapted to break up the clods and also to prevent them from rolling against, and injuring, the young corn.

A further object is to construct a durable and practically inexpensive skeleton Wheel for my fender which will not have a tendency to gather an accumulation of weeds, rubbish and the like.

My invention consists of certain details of construction hereinafter set forth, pointed out in my claim, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which Figure I shows a side elevation View of a part of a cultivator fitted out with my improved attachment; and Figs. II and III show detail views, in side elevation, of the skeleton revolving wheel which I employ and which is the principal feature of my invention.

This invention should be considered in connection with Patent Number 1,025,420 which was granted to me on the seventh day of May, 1912, as it is-an improvement there.

of, and an addition thereto.

As the only difference between the invention disclosed in the aforesaid patent and this invention is in the revolving wheel, which I employ, and as this invention is also an attachment which can be applied to any of the standard makes of cultivators, I will not enter into a description of cultivators but will confine myself to a description of the skeleton wheel and its manner of attachment.

Referring to the accompanying drawings the reference numeral 10 indicates a culti- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 18, 1913.

Applicatfon filed January 27, 1913. Serial No. 744,374.

vator beam equipped with plowing devices 11 and 12. Secured to the cultivator beam, and extending rearwardly and downwardly therefrom to a point in advance of the forward shovel 11, and to the side thereof, is a stem 13 designed as a support and mounting for the revolving wheel. The said wheel is provided wlth a sohd center ll from which radiate spokes 15, adjacent spokes being joined at their outer extremities in the manner shown, so that the periphery of the wheel is, in effect, scalloped and solid. The wheel periphery or tread is shown as being formed to have a plurality of U-shaped parts which latter are connected to each other and at their points of connection are secured in any suitable manner to the spokes, the Us shaped parts bridging the spaces betweenthe adjacent spokes thus providing the wheel with a scalloped tread. My purpose is to stamp the spokes from metal or to cast them, no Wire being used in their construction. Obviously the wheel is secured to the stem for rotarymovement on its mounting.

The operation of the fender is so obvious that description thereof will be omitted.

Having thus described my invention what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

A clod fender consisting of a hub, a series of spaced radial spokes secured to the hub, and means to connect the spokes and to form a tread for the fender consisting of an element formed separate from the spokes which element is vformed to have a plurality of U-shaped parts which latter are connected to each other and at their points of connection are secured to the spokes, the U-shaped parts bridging the spaces between adjacent spokes, whereby the wheel has a scalloped 

